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The debut album by John Foxx And The Maths will be released by Metamatic Records. “Interplay” is a collaboration between John Foxx and electronic composer and synthesizer collector, Benge (Ben Edwards). He’s best known for his 2008 album, “Twenty Systems” which was described by Brian Eno as ‘a brilliant contribution to the archaeology of electronic music.’ The album will initially be available as a Deluxe Digipack limited to 1500 copies, designed by Jonathan Barnbrook whose previous work includes David Bowie’s “Heathen” and “Reality” albums.
Moody and atmospheric, but also full of songs that are actually more ‘’pop’’ than avant garde, “Interplay” pulls various strands of electronic music together – from early ‘80s electro to 70s Krautrock, even flashes of Cabaret Voltaire and Foxx’s first band, Ultravox! One track, “Watching A Building On Fire” features Mira Aroyo from Ladytron, who also came up with the original synth riff. Although “Interplay” sounds nothing like the ambient experiments of “Twenty Systems”, both albums are based around the waves, frequencies and vibrations of analogue synthesizers. Many of the songs on the new Maths album started with an electronic rhythm from a 1960s Moog system built into Benge’s studio, with the pair then coming up with ideas live in the studio. As Benge says, ‘the idea of Interplay is in the lyric from the title-track. ‘We calculated everything, but not the interplay’. In the studio we left a lot of things to chance and let the various combinations of sounds and colours and connections trigger our imaginations.’
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